Audit-Ready Consignments for Refinery Intake — Documented to GoldBod and OECD
A refinery cannot absorb a consignment whose provenance, assay, or custody was never properly recorded. Ghana Metals coordinates with — and serves — refineries by delivering consignments whose chain-of-custody, independent assay, and OECD-aligned responsible-sourcing screening withstand third-party audit, prepared within Ghana’s GoldBod-regulated framework (Ghana Gold Board Act, 2025 — Act 1140). We are a sourcing and compliance service firm: we are not a refinery, do not mine, and do not claim to be GoldBod.
Why Refineries Specify Ghana Metals
Refinery intake is the highest-stakes moment in any precious-metals supply chain. The consignment that arrives at a refinery gate carries with it every undocumented decision made upstream — provenance claims that were never verified, assay results that were never independently reconciled, custody transfers that were never formally recorded. Refineries operating to international responsible-sourcing obligations cannot absorb that uncertainty. Ghana Metals exists precisely to eliminate it.
Our engagement with refinery-bound consignments begins at origin — in the artisanal and small-scale mining corridors of Ghana and Togo — and follows the material through every custody transfer until it reaches the intake desk. The documentation we produce is designed to satisfy the due-diligence expectations of refinery compliance teams, not merely to satisfy local export requirements. That distinction defines the entire discipline of what we do.
Specification Requirements Unique to Refinery Intake Operations
Refineries operating under responsible-sourcing frameworks require incoming consignments to be supported by traceable chain-of-custody records that can withstand third-party audit. Generic provenance declarations are insufficient. The intake process demands independent assay certificates reconciled against declared weight and purity, documented transfer records at each custody change point, and clear evidence that the responsible-sourcing screening applied upstream meets the refinery’s own declared standards.
Within Ghana and Togo, the regulatory environment governing precious-metals export adds additional layers: Minerals Commission requirements, export permit documentation, and — for gold in particular — the formal assay and valuation processes administered through designated institutions. Ghana Metals operates with detailed working knowledge of these regulatory requirements and structures its documentation outputs to satisfy both the Ghanaian and Togolese regulatory layer and the refinery’s internal compliance layer simultaneously.
Recommended Services for Refinery Intake Clients
- Chain-of-Custody Documentation — end-to-end custody records structured to refinery audit standards, covering every transfer from sourcing point to intake delivery
- Independent Assay Coordination — arrangement and reconciliation of independent assay analysis to produce certificates suitable for refinery intake verification
- Responsible-Sourcing Screening — structured due-diligence review of consignment origin against applicable responsible-sourcing frameworks prior to export
- Export Documentation & Permit Support — preparation and coordination of the regulatory documentation required for lawful precious-metals export from Ghana and Togo
- Pre-Shipment Compliance Review — a final documentary audit of the consignment package before dispatch, confirming that all refinery intake requirements are met
Notable Project Types
Ghana Metals has coordinated documentation and compliance support for consolidated gold consignments assembled from multiple sourcing points across Ghana’s established mining regions, where aggregating material from several upstream collectors requires particular rigour in reconciling individual custody records into a single coherent chain. The complexity of these engagements — tracking material through aggregation, independent assay, screening, and export permitting — represents the operational core of what refinery intake coordination demands at scale.
We have also supported time-sensitive refinery intake requirements where a consignment’s documentation package required rapid reconciliation and gap-remediation before a scheduled intake window. In these engagements, the value of having a structured compliance process already in place — rather than attempting to reconstruct documentation retrospectively — is made unambiguously clear. Refineries do not grant intake exceptions for documentation failures; Ghana Metals exists so that those failures do not arise.
Our Services for Refineries
- Chain-of-Custody Assurance — audit-grade custody records to intake
- Gold Assay & Fineness Verification — independent assay reconciled to declared weight and purity
- Responsible Gold Sourcing — OECD screening prior to export
- Gold Export Compliance — export documentation within the GoldBod regime
- Verifying a Legitimate Gold Supplier — the anti-scam checklist
Legitimacy & Compliance
- We coordinate with and serve refineries — we are not a refinery, we do not mine, and we do not claim to be GoldBod
- We operate within Ghana’s GoldBod-regulated framework — the Ghana Gold Board Act, 2025 (Act 1140), under which GoldBod is the sole legal buyer, assayer, and exporter of ASM-sector gold (the Act repealed the PMMC and, from May 2025, bars foreigners from local gold trading). We coordinate the official GoldBod assay/export where they apply
- We make no claim of LBMA accreditation or ISO 17025 status; we structure documentation to meet the LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance standards a receiving refinery itself applies. Valuation, where required, is against the international spot price (LBMA / COMEX), never below it
- Institutional clients only
Compliance & Standards
- Operation within Ghana’s GoldBod-regulated framework (Ghana Gold Board Act, 2025 — Act 1140); Minerals Commission of Ghana licensing requirements (Act 703) for the upstream mining tier we source from, not one we operate in
- Togolese regulatory requirements governing precious-metals trade and export
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas — applicable framework disciplines
- London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Responsible Gold Guidance — documentation standards as required by refinery intake specifications (we structure to them; we make no claim to hold LBMA accreditation ourselves)
- Chain-of-custody record integrity aligned to third-party audit expectations
- Responsible-sourcing screening documentation structured for refinery compliance team review
+233 27 000 0844. Institutional clients only.